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[pants46]

If you had your time again, to do something different (job / career), what would you do ?

I would be a zoo keeper 🦁 🐨 🦉

[getting_old]

I'd absolutely insist on going to boarding school. I'd have missed my dad like crazy but I would have been a much nicer person without my mother's influence.
Workwise I'd have studied harder, instead of being on self-destruct, and I'd have moved to another country as soon as I finished university.

[jaypo]

I wouldn't have dumped my boyfriend 38 years ago,re met him in 2011 and married him in 2013 😊💖

[pants46]

Aaaw Jaypo. 

[jillydoll]

I definitely would do things differently. Not with my OH, but with my own life and family.
Hope I remember in my next life! 😇

[Tc]

I would have gone to university and or taken up acting or writing.
I wouldve tried living in another country.
And I wouldve appreciated good health when I had it.

[Tc]

Oh..and I would never ever have plucked my eyebrows

[pants46]

Tc, you can still take up writing now.
I do think maybe it's not too late to change career path, and become a zoo keeper, or a vet nurse maybe.
But it is probably too late to become a ballerina !! 

[Blot]

I would have gone to university to study ancient history and become an archaeologist.

[Sparrow]

I don't think having regrets about your past is a good thing.  There is nothing you can do to change it so let it go.  'The past is another country', the saying goes and it is so true.

Make plans for the future but concentrate on the here and now.  The past is gone and the future never comes.  We only have the here and now so make that the best it can be.

[squeaker99]

 

You are right Shadyglen.  The route not taken may well not have had the better outcome anyway.   I had a mid career wobble and
took a year off to teach (My ' should have done' job). I hated it and left after 9 months. It was nothing like I thought. 

I broke up with my 'in your face', 'take no prisoners'  Yorkshire boyfriend for a mild mannered, quietly spoken accountant from Surrey.
He turned out to be a complete psycho who I ended up reporting for stalking me at work. (Now am married to the Yorkshireman 17 years).

We left the rat race and moved to a stunning part of the UK to set up our own business.  We now hate it and want to move back!

(P.S I would have been a podiatrist and born Spanish to a cello playing, cup cake baking mother)

[Sparrow]

 

Brilliant post squeaker.  Life is a journey but we never know the route.  Just enjoy the scenery. 

[Foxylady]

Oh that's lovely jaypo, meant to be!
I would have done one of two things forensic medicine or run a coffee shop (two extremes!!) Also I would have liked to have learned sooner that some folk (family) just cannot be pleased & not to waste years trying, should have eloped rather than family wedding (biggest regret!!) x

[Two hoots]

I met my better half at work 35 years ago and he's still the nicest person I've ever met, so I wouldn't change a thing 

[jaypo]

I also wish I'd kept up with my piano playing and learnt to be fluent in another language